Disgraced at birth, unwanted, abused, held captive by a life of crime, addiction, and then torture as an American POW, Bill Kropp cried out to God to "get this monkey off my back."

Battling a hostile world, his journey from hell to hope will resonate with those who have known personally or witnessed in others the insidious suffocating depths of despair and alienation that can block from one's awareness any whisper of divine grace or human empathy.